Let the Word go forth

They have been lying...and people have been dying (in our name) for years, and years, and years. This is especially the case since December 2001 when they allowed bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora and has been virtually uninterrupted four years and nine months later.

From Crooks & Liars:

In an exclusive interview today, President Bush told Wolf Blitzer that he "rejects the notion that [Iraq] is in civil war" and that he "can’t learn it from the newscasts" and instead trusts "the commanders on the ground" for their assessments. Soledad O’Brien, sitting in for Paula Zahn, asks Baghdad Correspondent Michael Ware how he perceives the situation on the ground. Ware, who always tells it like it is, finds it laughable that Bush cites General Casey and Ambassador Khalilzad as reliable sources for honest assessments, saying that: "These are men who could not be more divorced from the Iraqi reality.

Here is the video: